Evaluation of the contents of environmental health and nursing course based on the criteria for selecting curriculum content

The aim of the present research is to evaluate environmental health and nursing course content based on the criteria for selecting curriculum content. The research is descriptive and statistical population includes all nurse students of Darab Islamic Azad University. By using Morgan table and stratified random sampling and deleting incomplete questionnaires, 302 questioners were analyzed. Regarding the experts emphasis on triple indexes, an 18-items questionnaire with five Likert scale was designed.In evaluating of cultural and social scales, the results showed that the scales of students familiarity with community regulations for protecting environment (t=-2.315) and the scales of increasing students general awareness and seriously accepting the words of authorities for protecting the environment (t=-2.174) are in undesirable situation.Moreover by assessing the scales of psychosocial principle it was found out that the lowest average (3.247) is relating to providing the practical activities for protecting environment by studentsand in evaluating the scale of content appropriateness to nursing knowledge and environmental health, the results showed that the highest average(3.352) belongs to the scale of teaching all sorts of pollutions and its criteria (t=5.152), and that the lowest average (3.147) belongs to the scale of teaching chemical damages on the environment(t=2.209).In general,among the seven scales of cultural factors in environmental health and nurse course content, three scales are in undesirable situation (state) and four scales are in relatively desirable situation. All the scales of psychological principle are in relatively desirable situation. Finally, the presented content in nursing and environmental health course in the light of content appropriateness to knowledge structure is in a relatively desirable state.